William M. Jones
For other people named William Jones, see William Jones (disambiguation).
Major William M. Jones (b. Bear River, Nova Scotia, 1895 - d. Ontario, 1969) was a soldier of WW1 and WW2 who served with distinction with the Yugoslav Partisans. His code name was "Lawrence of Yugoslavia" (a term also used to describe Linn Farrish). In WW1 Jones was wounded three times, losing one eye, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal with Bar.[1] In WW2, Major William M. Jones spent 12 months in the Yugoslav Partisan’s headquarters in Bosnia. In 1944, he parachuted into Yugoslavia to become an Allied representative to Marshal Josip Broz Tito.
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- Major William Jones by Laurent D’Entremont. Kings County Advertiser and Register. November 10, 2010
- Major William Jones: “Draza Mihailovic Assisted Nazis” 20 April 1946, The Windsor Daily Star, p.15
- Ray E. Zinck. The Final Flight of Maggie's Drawers: A Story of Survival, Evasion and Escape [of William M. Jones]
- Roy MacLaren. Canadians Behind Enemy Lines, 1939-1945, UBC Press.
- Jozo Tomasevich. War and Revolution in Yugoslavia: 1941 - 1945. Stanford University Press.
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